great Cathedral of Learning, under construction by the
University of Pittsburgh, surrounded by many present university
buildings. Not far away is the Pitt Stadium.
There has been standing for many years the magnificent St.
Paul’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, one of the really great
ecclesiastical edifices in the United States. Many fine
churches of other denominations are in view. Schenley
Park lies in the district, with its beautiful forests and fields
and lakes, in which is located Phipps conservatory. Immediately
adjoining are the many buildings of the Carnegie
Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institute. Not
far away is the fine building of the United States Bureau of
Mines. Other important buildings in this great civic center
include the Allegheny County Soldiers’ Memorial, Eighteenth
Regiment Armory, administration building of the Board of
Public Education, in process of erection, Schenley High
School, Catholic High School, Western Pennsylvania School
for the Blind, Syria Mosque, Masonic Hall, Pittsburgh
Athletic Association, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research,
University Club, Twentieth Century Club, Children’s
Hospital, Knights of Columbus and the Young Men and
Women’s Hebrew Association buildings.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
The ever-increasing educational interest of the Pittsburgh
community, and of western Pennsylvania, is perhaps
nowhere so adequately expressed as in the expansion of the
university which bears the city’s name. One hundred
forty-one years ago, in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh
had its beginning. It was known as Pittsburgh Academy.
Pittsburgh at that time was a frontier trading post, with less
than a thousand inhabitants, but one of its foremost interests
was education. Judge Hugh Henry Brackenbridge, a graduate
of Princeton, enlisted the cooperation of leading clergymen
and other public and professional men in establishing an
academy and on February 28, 1787, a charter was obtained
and the academy incorporated. Today that academy has
grown to be one of the three universities in Pennsylvania. and
